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...many supersensitive people, he is neither polite nor rational. In the first place he insuits a quite considerable body of Middlewestern Harvard men past and present. This we can forgive him on the score of what is, apparently, an over excitable adolescence. We are surprised, however, that even a Bostonian should have such highly romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type) of the numerous connections between Chicago families and the best of his own local deities. Admitting the magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians...
...that the traditional gentleman is careful with whom he draws his sword. If he were, he would realize that this slashing of thin air in defence of President Lowell and with such an adversary as the Chicago Tribune is unseemly. Will not this last reproach suffice for any good Bostonian...
...United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected Samuel Zemurray to fill...
...salaries; last year before he took charge they were cut 10% and another 15%. But he has cut personnel 25%, has sharply curtailed loans to independent planters from whom United Fruit buys bananas. He has revalued United Fruit properties at $50,000,000 less than the Bostonian reckoning, thereby enabling the company to save millions of dollars in depreciation charges and to show correspondingly higher earnings. Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from...
Last week at the final 1932 caucus of the Government's "People's Party" or Kuomintang (TIME, Dec. 26), Dr. Soong, who graduated from Harvard in 1915, presented his historic, balanced budget with this laconic, Bostonian statement: "Gentlemen, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! . . . Our credit is enhanced, our bonds are selling 20% higher than last year. . . . The striking progress thus achieved offsets all hostile propaganda that China is in chaos with a tottering Government...